The future role of smartphones in mobile money application is becoming clearer from recent trends and statistics. Estimated to account for 56% of all connections in emerging markets by 2018, service providers can strengthen their position [ … ]

Limited banking infrastructure in certain parts of the world means access to financial services can be challenging for some people. In this talk, Shivani Siroya discusses informal means of getting information to [ … ]

Lenders must obtain more individualised and context driven data for rural smallholder credit schemes to be successful. And with current developments in ‘alternative data’, and ‘data science’, new methods of [ … ]